Welcome to the official blog to NOSA's annual conference: NOSHCON 2010. The aim of this blog is to inform you, about the ins and outs of NOSHCON as we start the countdown to Africa's largest occupational risk management conference. We'll correspond with our valued speakers, discuss relevant health and safety matters and keep you updated on NOSHCON.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

USA: Manchin offers W.Va. help with Chinese mine rescue

(Extract from Phillyburbs.com)

Gov. Joe Manchin is offering to help rescuers trying to free more than 150 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine in northern China.

The governor's office says Chief of Staff Jim Spears extended the offer to China's U.S. embassy Monday.
The Chinese miners have been trapped sinceSunday at the Wangjialing Coal Mine, a new operation due to start production this year.

Spears says state mine rescue experts could provide expertise via telephone and Internet to rescuers in China.West Virginia is the second largest coal producing state in the country.

Editor: Mark Freeman (mark.freeman@industry.nsw.gov.au)
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